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Dropbox acquires Boxcryptor. What will happen to all those files that have been encrypted?
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As most will know, dropbox has purchased boxcryptor. At this point my question is, what will happen to all those files that have been encrypted with boxcryptor ? Should they all be decrypted an...
riccardo1981 wrote:
At this point my question is, what will happen to all those files that have been encrypted with boxcryptor ?
Since this is such a new development, such answers are likely not available yet, beyond what has been stated by the Boxcryptor founders (emphasis mine).
What does this mean for our users and customers?
First of all: All our existing users and customers will remain with the German Secomba GmbH with the same shareholders as during the past 10 years. No contracts, customer data or keys will migrate to Dropbox, all data will remain in our German data centers.
While weâve sold several key technology assets to Dropbox, we will continue to service our existing users and customers pursuant to the terms of their existing contracts. However, as of today, we will not allow the creation of new accounts or purchases of any new licenses.
If youâre an existing customer, you can keep using Boxcryptor as you do today, and weâll be in touch with more details as we join forces with Dropbox. If youâre new here and would like to stay up to date on Dropboxâs progress, join the Dropbox mailing list.
You will also find the most important FAQs regarding the next steps below.
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Dropbox Product Manager
Dropbox Product ManagerI completely understand your frustration and the inconvenience this has caused for you and other users.
While I don't have an immediate solution to offer, I'll pass on your feedback to my team. But I can assure you, that they are aware of the urgency and are already working on this topic. Thank you!
I'm getting tired of these lame excuses. I'm going to move to a zero-knowledge platform.
- As much as I love Dropbox because it works so well across devices, the company has endlessly proven their priority is to grow revenue over the greater good of its community. â See the eight year battle for âIgnore folder (without selective sync)â.
Dropbox is highly likely making new revenue by eliminating BoxCryptor, the #1 provider of user privacy. The question is â Who or What is the source of that revenue that benefits most from eliminating zero-knowledge encryption? The acquisition cost needs to be offset somehow.
DropBoxâs non-action and deflective responses indicate community rants will have zero impact.
The **ONLY** solution is a 3rd party provider of zero-knowledge encryption, like BoxCryptor.
â This thread should be used to share leads on new providers filling the BoxCryptor void.
As for me, I stopped using encryption which is terribly uncomfortable with (insecure) online storage due to the growing number of bad actors out there. Well, I asked the BC team last year if they were going to offer something new and similar after Boxcryptor was discontinued. I even asked if it was possible to get the rights to create a clone. All I got were automated messages. We may never know what made BC adapt the poor communication behavior of Dropbox and why they ruined their "baby" after so many years. Will we ever know what motivated BC to leave all the customers out in the cold instead of leaving everything as it was and just coming up with the new product and strategy when it was ready and fully functional? Normally Germans don't do things like that. Maybe Andrea can finally give us some reasons. Anyway, I'm now happily working with Filen, which is also a German startup and reminds me of how it all started with BC more than a decade ago. It replaced my DB and BC and provides zero knowledge encryption. No more two applications needed. As usual, every disaster leads to something new and better in the end...
